Time flies

It is February already. I used to say to my friend as a joke, "Hey, only 11 months to go to the next year".  Time passes so fast for the first three month at the beginning of the year.
I remember  the famous saying by Gandhi, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" However, I feel impatience as I can learn but I do not have enough time.

Snowman

Snowman or woman?

The snowman we made last week is still alive. I made nose, mouth and false eyelashes on the face during the lunch time. Is snowman usually male? Now that the man turned to snow-woman. By the way, is the word "snowman" sexist language? If so, I should call it "snowperson"

Cat's food preference

Eating withered grass

She eats the grass for pets. I bought potted grass. It is very strange that she seems to prefer dried withered leaves to fresh one. That is OK as I do not have to water the grass.
I really want to ask her "Is it tasty ?" I hope she will stay healthy.

Cat

I heard a sound early in the morning while I was in bed. I immediately recognized that it was sound of my cat vomiting on my desk. I found the vomit on my notebook so I rubbed off it right away. Anyway it was lucky that she did not vomit on the keyboard.
I wanted tell her "I am not your servant !" 

It snowed !

It snowed in the night.　The world has changed to white in the morning.

Photo taken in the evening

The snow has not melted, so we made two snowmen in the lunch break with my coworkers. One was really big, the height is over a meter, the other was a bit smaller.  It was so hard to put the snowball of head part on the body part of snowball. The snowball was so heavy to lift. I hope I do not have sore muscle tomorrow.
They will melt within this week.

Cold Sunday afternoon

It was cold day.
I went out for short time and bought some books. I finished reading one of the book written by a translator.  He says that pronunciation of English is not big problem for Japanese because English speaker can understand what some says in context. In the book, there are some eye opening tips for English learners.
I realized again that to master foreign language is not easy, and takes time.

Winter with kotatsu

Curling up inside kotatsu

It was awfully cold today too.  It sleeted slightly in the evening but it did not snow. 
We cannot live without heater in winter. I usually use kotatsu, which is low table with heater. We put blanket on it and put our feet inside to get warm.
Typically cat in Japan inside the house is curling up in the kotatsu in cold winter season. I prefer staying inside to going out in winter like a cat.